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LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) Jay Cutler said it's on the offense now for the Chicago Bears.
The Bears are banged up on both sides of the ball, and with Brian Urlacher sidelined by a hamstring injury the defense may be without its leader for the remainder of the season.
``We have to find a way,'' Cutler said Wednesday. ``We got to score more points. We got to be more efficient. Third down has been getting better. First down has been getting better. Red zone when we get in there we've done a good job. We just got to get more points, whatever it takes.''
Mostly, they need to play to expectations. That's something they haven't done, and with the defense starting to show some wear and tear after leading the way in a dominant start, the Bears are looking as vulnerable as any playoff contender.
They're tied with Green Bay for the NFC North lead at 8-4, but things could get dicey if they lose at Minnesota this week.
Their only remaining home game is Dec. 16 against the Packers, who won the first meeting at Lambeau Field. After that, the Bears visit Arizona and Detroit to close out the regular season.
At the moment, they're limping along with three losses in four games and a mounting list of injuries to go with Urlacher's, all while trying to secure a playoff spot.
``When you start getting depleted and trying to make that run for the division, trying to position yourself for the playoffs or whatever it is, and you don't have your main guys out there, it could be difficult,'' Minnesota defensive end Jared Allen said.
``At the same time, you've got to have that next-man-up mentality because everybody is in the league for a reason; everybody gets a paycheck. You have to step up and fill the void when need be.''
Cutler had to sit out the loss at San Francisco on Nov. 19 with a concussion and the Bears really took a beating the following week in a win over Minnesota, with Devin Hester sustaining a concussion and starting guards Lance Louis and Chris Spencer suffering knee injuries.
Louis has a torn anterior cruciate ligament and is out for the remainder of the season. Spencer sat out last week's overtime loss to Seattle. Edwin Williams started for him at left guard and Gabe Carimi got the nod at right guard for Louis. Offensive coordinator Mike Tice said he doesn't expect any lineup changes this week.
The Bears do hope to get receiver Alshon Jeffery (knee) and Hester back this week, but they could be without receiver Earl Bennett after he left the Seattle game with a concussion.
They also lost Urlacher and cornerback Tim Jennings (shoulder) on the final drive against the Seahawks. Neither practiced Wednesday, and coach Lovie Smith said he wasn't sure exactly how bad Jennings' injury is.
There's more clarity on Urlacher, who told a Chicago TV station Tuesday that doctors expect him to miss two to four games. He has officially been ruled out for this game.
If the Bears miss the playoffs, it's possible he has played his last down for them because of an expiring contract. For now, they will likely go with Nick Roach in the middle and move Geno Hayes into the lineup at strong side linebacker without Urlacher.
``Brian is definitely the heart of our team. I recognized that right away when I got traded here,'' receiver Brandon Marshall said. ``We have a lot of leaders in the locker room, just on that side of the ball alone you have Lance (Briggs), Julius (Peppers), Peanut (Charles Tillman), Tim, Nick, so there's a lot of guys that will pick it up and make plays while he's out.''
It would help if the offense came through, although it could be difficult against Allen and the Vikings. They kept Allen at bay last time, although he did deliver the hit that ended Louis' season on an interception return.
The offense really hasn't functioned the way the Bears envisioned after acquiring Marshall in the offseason and reuniting him with Cutler.
Big things were expected. They just haven't come.
Marshall has been as advertised, but Matt Forte hasn't really gotten going. The blocking remains a huge issue, and the offense simply hasn't put up big numbers.
That group ranks 30th overall and 31st in the passing game. Chicago is averaging 24.5 points, but the defense has played a big role in that with seven touchdowns on interception returns.
And the Bears are averaging just 14.5 points the past four games, even though they've gotten off to better starts in their last two.
``Guys are going to have to step up as other guys have ... and we're just going to have to find a way,'' Cutler said.
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ROCK HILL, South Carolina, January 5, 2016 – 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) announced today that it will showcase its full range of 3D printers, software and services at International CES 2016 in Las Vegas, NV, January 6-9. Visitors are invited to observe and explore how 3D technology is already transforming the way we work, learn and live at 3D Systems' booth 72721 in the Sands Expo.
In addition to showcasing its comprehensive lineup of existing products and services, 3D Systems plans to unveil new products, including:
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Throughout the 3D Systems booth, attendees will have the opportunity to peruse a wide range of 3D-enabled applications that span from the product design shop to the operating room to the factory floor.
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Presentations scheduled for 3D Systems' booth 72721 in the Sands Expo include:
- The world's first commercial running shoe made with a 3D printed midsole, produced by New Balance using 3D Systems' Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) printers and DuraForm® Flex TPU material;
- The power and potential of mass customization featuring Align Technology, which relies on 3D Systems' Stereolithography (SLA) 3D printers to create its patient specific Invisalign® aligners;
- Fit For Me bespoke products, featuring companies such as Wiivv, Sandboxr, Vowsmith and pq Eyewear that have adapted 3D technology to better cater to their customers through individually-tailored design and production;
- 3D design demonstrations by artist and inventor Scotty Ziegler, highlighting the intuitive nature of 3D modeling and design and showcasing how designers and engineers can move fluidly from an idea to a virtual model to a physical part and back again;
- Direct Metal Printing with Planetary Resources, showcasing how one company is using 3D design and manufacturing to develop cost-effective space exploration technologies, mine near-earth asteroids and expand humanity's resource base. 3D Systems will also reveal and display the first-ever object 3D printed from material recovered from a meteorite.
- Advanced healthcare solutions and personalized medicine, including custom braces and prosthetics by UNYQ as well as Virtual Surgical Planning (VSP®) and Virtual Surgical Simulation (VSS™) by 3D Systems.
A full presentation schedule can be found online at http://www.3dsystems.com/ces
"We are bringing the full array of our products and services to CES 2016 to share the amazing things that are happening today with 3D technology," said Cathy Lewis, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, 3D Systems. "Our expanded display is designed to showcase how individuals and companies alike are using our solutions to improve designs, transform workflows, bring innovative products to market and drive new business models."
In addition to 3D Systems' in-booth product exhibition and presentation series, the company's Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Chuck Hull, will take part in the panel presentation "Under the Hood: Understanding Underlying Product Technologies." As the inventor of the first additive manufacturing process, Stereolithography, Hull will explain in everyday language the innovations that make 3D printing possible today. See Hull's panel discussion at 10:15 AM on January 7 in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, room N261.
Real-time 3D Systems updates from the show can be viewed and shared using #IdeasTransformed. In-booth presentations and experiences will be broadcasted live from the company's Periscope account, @3DSystemscorp, and posted to its YouTube channel.
About 3D Systems
3D Systems provides advanced and comprehensive 3D digital design and fabrication solutions, including 3D printers, print materials and custom-designed parts. Its powerful ecosystem transforms entire industries by empowering users to bring their ideas to life using its vast material selection, including plastics, elastomers, metals and bio-compatible materials. 3D Systems' leading personalized medicine capabilities include end-to-end simulation, training and planning, and printing of patient-specific surgical instruments and medical and dental devices. Its 3D digital design, fabrication and inspection products provide seamless interoperability and incorporate the latest immersive computing technologies. 3D Systems' products and services disrupt traditional methods, deliver improved results and empower its customers to manufacture the future now.
More information on the company is available at www.3dsystems.com
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"The Secretary-General once again urges the Bahraini authorities to resolve Mr. Al-Khawaja's case based on due process and humanitarian considerations without any further delay," Mr. Ban's spokesperson said in a statement.
Earlier this month, a group of UN experts had called for the immediate release of Mr. Al-Khawaja, who was due to receive a final verdict from Bahrain's Court of Cassation today. However, according to media reports, the verdict has been postponed until 30 April.
Mr. Ban also called on Bahraini authorities to fully respect the fundamental human rights of the Bahraini people, including due process concerning all detainees.
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Since February, there have been clashes in Bahrain between security forces and demonstrators, a year after widespread civil protests first emerged in the country. The Secretary-General has consistently called for authorities there to exercise restraint and act in accordance with their international human rights obligations.
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Ever since I made pistachio milk a few weeks back, I've become obsessed with nut-based milks, whipping up a different batch each week week. These beverages are so easy to make—all you do is soak nuts overnight, then blend them with water and strain—and the payoff is huge, yielding smooth, delicate, creamy milks that are fantastic on their own and excellent poured over cereal. There's just no reason to buy the cartoned stuff on sale at your local supermarket; these are so much tastier.
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Crochet Unicorn Pattern Link
After crocheting a blessing/herd of unicorns to give out to the girls' friends for Christmas...
...I feel very good about recommending the free pattern from Sheep Dog's Fleece (click here to go there). It's a beginner level project, and the pattern instructions are clear, and easy to follow. There is a fair amount of fiddly sewing together though - so allow a little extra time for completion if you decide to make a unicorn for everyone you know. Believe me, it's next to impossible to make just one.
Oh, and don't worry if the head looks too small for the body when you attach it - by the time you get the mane on, it will look just right.
Merry Christmas! And, a big thanks to Sheep Dog's Fleece for the fantastic pattern and inspiration.
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Friday, December 7, 2012
Preschool Egg Carton Manger Craft
For the preschool Sunday school class:
A googly eyed cotton ball "baby"...
...wrapped in toilet paper "swaddling clothes"...
...secured with a small piece of tape...
...and laid in a manger...
...made ahead of time, out of an egg carton, cut apart...
...and trimmed, so each cup has one side left sticking up, like a spoon handle...
...filled with ripped up, paper bag, "hay" (children can rip up the paper, and fill their mangers, while the googly eye glue dries on their cotton balls)...
...then topped off with a shiny star, cut out ahead, from tinfoil, or in our case - recycled chocolate wrappers, glued onto the egg carton "handle".
Any theological discussion as to when and where the star should actually appear in the Christmas story can probably be left to the grown-ups, or at least the upper elementary classes - but that's up to you.
Merry Christmas from Almost Unschoolers!
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Washable, Color Your Own Doll, Craft
Here's one for those of you scrambling to craft up a homemade Christmas, or trying to put together a few extra gifts to have on hand.
This time of year I start sorting through my craft closet, with potential presents in mind, which is how I happened to find myself sitting in front of my archenemy - the sewing machine - with a scrap of white fabric, left over from some forgotten craft project or other, just waiting to be turned into a doll. My sewing skills are sadly insufficient to the task, so the little dolls I came up with are sort of strange, but the girls loved them - so no judging!
I had them draw large paper dolls for me...
...to cut out, and trace onto the fabric...
...as a pattern (two for each doll).
Then, I sewed the pieces together...
...and stuffed them with polyfill. If your sewing skills are as lacking as mine, I would suggest using a nice simple doll pattern, in a largish size, for slightly more normal looking dolls.
But really, my girls didn't seem to notice how oddly shaped, and lumpy their new dolls were, once I handed them the pack of washable markers...
...and told them they could draw the faces, hair, and clothes on for themselves.
We let the marker dry for a few seconds, before the played with the dolls...
...and much to my relief, the dry marker didn't come off on the girls' hands, but did rinse right off in the washing machine, in cold water (it might take two washes, depending on the colors used)...
...creating a clean slate for the girls to decorate again.
Not too bad for a scrap of cotton fabric, a couple of handful's of polyfill, a box of markers, and a rather frustrating hour, or so of sewing time. I'm even thinking a couple of the old pillowcases taking up space in the linen closet might have to become color-your-own dinosaurs in time for Christmas, evil sewing machine, with it's wicked empty bobbin, not withstanding.
It's great to be a homeschooler.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Homemade Holiday Scented Crayons
C was busy coloring in a sheet of gingerbread men, when she commented on how much better it would be if her picture smelled like gingerbread too, and I thought...
...why not? We've made scented everything else - play dough, finger paint, even wrapping paper...
...why not crayons? There are plenty of posts out there with instructions for melting, and remolding your children's left over crayon bits. I usually go for the melt-in-the-oven method, but this time I tried out the fast and easy crayons-in-a-can-placed-in-a-bowl-of-boiling-water...
...but added in a few shakes of cinnamon...
...what amounted to about 2 teaspoons of spice per four or five crayons worth of bits...
...before melting the crayon, and pouring the scented wax into a mini cookie cutter with the bottom wrapped in tinfoil...
...to cool and harden...
...into a festive shape.
We followed our cinnamon crayon up with mint (made with two teaspoons of mint extract added to green crayons), and hot chocolate (made with a couple of teaspoons of hot chocolate mix added to brown crayons). I was all set to make up a black licorice crayon, when I realized I was all out of anise extract, and so decided to call it a night.
I'm sure any of the oils designed for making scented candles would probably work to make scented crayons just as well, but I love finding things right in my own kitchen that can be reworked into fun little presents like these.
You can really smell the mint and cinnamon, even on the paper, though the chocolate is a little more subtle. I had the Man of the House give them a quick, blind-folded sniff. He identified the mint right off, and the cinnamon after a second smell, but he guessed the chocolate was vanilla - still a nice scent.
Needless to say, C was thrilled to be able to draw mint trees with cinnamon ornaments and chocolaty...or at least sweet smelling...trunks.
Happy fall from Almost Unschoolers!
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Watermelon Fudge
For National Watermelon Day (no I'm not kidding), we loosely followed a recipe from Something Swanky, to transform the traditional 3 minute, 3 ingredient fudge we like to make at Christmastime, into a summer delight...
...by melting together sweetened condensed milk (14 oz), white chocolate chips (3 cups), and watermelon flavored candy oil to taste (we substituted a strawberry, watermelon water enhancer, because that's as close as we could come to a watermelon flavoring) in the microwave for...
...a minute and a half, or until the chips are completely melted, stirring after every thirty seconds...
...then dividing out a small portion (about 1/3 of the total) into two bowls, adding green food coloring to one bowl, leaving the other white, and dyeing the remaining portion red (with food coloring, and a few extra squirts of flavor if desired)...
...before layering them into a small loaf pan (we used a regular size loaf pan, and had to make additional red fudge, in order to make it thick (as in deep) enough, unfortunately adding too much sweetened condensed milk to the second batch, making for a gooey top, which you'll see in the pictures to come, but doesn't reflect on the original recipe), green first...
...then white...
...and red...
...allowing an hour in the refrigerator for the fudge to set up, before removing it from the pan...
...to slice into strips, and then wedges (every other one of which will look like a watermelon wedge, and all of which will taste good)...
...and top with mini chocolate chip "seeds".
Happy National Watermelon Day!
Posted by An Almost Unschooling Mom at 4:38 PM
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Crochet Koala
I was in a crochety kind of mood today, and came across a link on Craft Passion to a super cute, simple and quick to crochet pattern for a amigurumi koala from Woman's Day Magazine, that will work perfectly as a gift for one of C's friends' upcoming birthday.
Craft Passion offers a few hints and variations for putting the koala together. I pretty much followed the original pattern, except I found the ears and nose as written, turned out a little small, and not the usual rounds of an amigurumi pattern, so I reworked them as follows, just for personal preference.
Ears (make 2):
With white yarn -
Ch 3, slip stitch through the first ch to form a loop.
R1 - Make 4 sc into the center of the loop (4 sc).
R2 - 2 sc into each sc around (8 sc). FO.
R3 - Start grey yarn with a slip stitch in the first sc, then 2sc in that same sc, and one sc in the next sc around (12 sc).
R4 - Sc in each sc around (12 sc). FO, leaving a tail for sewing onto the head.
Weave in remaining loose ends.
With black yarn -
Ch 3, slip stitch through the first ch to form a loop.
R1 - Make 3 sc into the center of the loop (3 sc).
R2 - 2 sc into each sc around (6 sc).
R3 - 2 sc into first sc, 1 sc in the next two sc around (9 sc). FO, leaving a tail for sewing on.
Sew the nose onto face with one corner of the three sides facing down.
It's great to be a homeschooler.
Posted by An Almost Unschooling Mom at 4:39 PM
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Upside Down Microwave Cherry Cheesecake in a Mug
I found myself yesterday, a day late, and dessert short. It's not that I had forgotten about National Cheesecake Day, or that I had forgotten it was on July 30th, or that Monday was 30th, I just sort of lost track of Monday. Do you ever have one of those weeks?
Anyway, I figured a day late was better than not at all, especially considering the number of interesting and delicious sounding cheesecake recipes floating around out there, like this one, inspired and modified from the Five Minute Cheesecake recipe at Not Quite Nigella -
Spoon a tablespoon or two of cherry pie filling into the bottom of an 8oz microwave safe mug.
Blend together until smooth:
2 1/2 tablespoons cream cheese
2 1/2 tablespoons sour cream
2 1/2 tablespoons powdered sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
and 1 egg white.
Pour the mixture over the cherries in the mug, and microwave on medium power for two minutes and a half minutes, or until the sides seem firm but the center is still jiggly (but not runny).
Crumble a graham cracker over the top.
Allow to cool thoroughly, and finish setting up, in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, or more...
...before digging in.
Happy Belated National Cheesecake Day!
It's great to be a homeschooler.
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Gary Orenstein, Fusion-io's senior VP of product, says his company's purpose is to make the world's data go faster. Data is everywhere--the cloud, the Web--but it's on disk, which is too slow for many of today's demanding data needs. With Fusion-io's IoDrives and Ion Data Accelerator software, data center managers can build solid-state, flash-based storage arrays across physical and virtual servers more cost effectively. And it does so with a smaller footprint, which is crucial in today's data center.
Orenstein says Fusion-io is doing lots of work in organizations using Oracle, Microsoft, and MySQL databases, and is also starting to see some big data deployments using MongoDB.
Orenstein boiled all of this down into his 3-minute elevator pitch on Valley View recently and came out shining in front of our judges. You can watch it all in the video embedded below.
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Let's talk about the most famous call at The Masters.
It did not occur this year at the recently completed tournament, although the way Adam Scott and Angel Cabrera played golf's version of H-O-R-S-E for the last hour certainly lent itself to someone saying something memorable.
While the drama remains fresh, a notable call doesn't. I don't remember anything.
I do, however, remember Verne Lundquist's amazed response to Tiger Woods' chip at 16 in 2005:
"Here it comes . . . oh my goodness . . . oh WOW! In your LIFE, have you ever seen anything like that?''
And I remember Lundquist's simple, poetic description of Jack Nicklaus' putt at 17 in 1986:
"Maybe . . . yes SIR!''
A friend wanted to argue which was the best. I didn't want that debate, so I pointed out that Lundquist provided the greatest Masters calls for the greatest golfers of different generations. The legions that idolized Nicklaus can claim theirs, while the billions of Tigeraholics have theirs.
However, neither is the greatest call in the long, glorious, dramatic history of the greatest golf tournament ever.
No, the most memorable moment owed to a wordsmith belongs to Carl Spackler doing play-by-play of his own iron shot at the chrysanthemums in 1980:
"The crowd has gone deadly silent. A Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"
The story goes that Bill Murray improvised that scene in "Caddyshack" after director Harold Ramis told him to emulate a kid announcing his fantasy sports moment. Murray asked for some chrysanthemums, and in one take, he created cinema's best golf moment.
Or maybe you think it's Al Czervik breaking wind at dinner and asking, "Hey, did someone step on a duck?"
Or maybe Ty Webb responding to Judge Smailes' assessment that he's no slouch at golf, saying, "Don't sell yourself short, Judge. You're a tremendous slouch.''
We could argue about this all day, but here's the good news: You don't have to choose. Now you can get every line when we stage a "Caddyshack'' night at the Music Box Theater on June 11.
When is the last time you saw the greatest golf movie ever on the big screen? Maybe 30 years ago. Maybe never. Well, guess what? Tribune film critic Michael Phillips and I are giving you a mulligan. We're pleasers, not teasers.
I think we're on our second generation of golfers who have never seen "Caddyshack'' the way it was meant to be seen. Trust me on this. I'd seen "Slap Shot'' thousands of times on television, but it became a whole other movie when I saw it during our laugh-filled showing at the Music Box in December. You'll feel the same way about "Caddyshack,'' a movie you've seen a thousand times like you've never seen it before.
We're also working on special guests, although, alas, we are unable to contact the Dalai Lama or guarantee total consciousness on our deathbeds. For "Slap Shot'' night, however, we ended up skyping in a Hanson Brother for a question-and-answer session, so we got that going for us with "Caddyshack,'' which is good.
So, order tickets here: chicagotribune.com/caddyshack. Do it now. While we're young!


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§285g–5. Research centers with respect to contraception and infertility
(a) Grants and contracts
The Director of the Institute, after consultation with the advisory council for the Institute, shall make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public or nonprofit private entities for the development and operation of centers to conduct activities for the purpose of improving methods of contraception and centers to conduct activities for the purpose of improving methods of diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
(b) Number of centers
In carrying out subsection (a), the Director of the Institute shall, subject to the extent of amounts made available in appropriations Acts, provide for the establishment of three centers with respect to contraception and for two centers with respect to infertility.
(c) Duties
(1) Each center assisted under this section shall, in carrying out the purpose of the center involved-
(A) conduct clinical and other applied research, including-
(i) for centers with respect to contraception, clinical trials of new or improved drugs and devices for use by males and females (including barrier methods); and
(ii) for centers with respect to infertility, clinical trials of new or improved drugs and devices for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility in males and females;
(B) develop protocols for training physicians, scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health professionals;
(C) conduct training programs for such individuals;
(D) develop model continuing education programs for such professionals; and
(E) disseminate information to such professionals and the public.
(2) A center may use funds provided under subsection (a) to provide stipends for health and allied health professionals enrolled in programs described in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1), and to provide fees to individuals serving as subjects in clinical trials conducted under such paragraph.
(d) Coordination of information
The Director of the Institute shall, as appropriate, provide for the coordination of information among the centers assisted under this section.
(e) Facilities
Each center assisted under subsection (a) shall use the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from a consortium of cooperating institutions, meeting such requirements as may be prescribed by the Director of the Institute.
(f) Period of support
Support of a center under subsection (a) may be for a period not exceeding 5 years. Such period may be extended for one or more additional periods not exceeding 5 years if the operations of such center have been reviewed by an appropriate technical and scientific peer review group established by the Director and if such group has recommended to the Director that such period should be extended.
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Thought I'd share an interesting release I received from the University of Pittsburgh:
Classrooms have become smarter, thanks to the use of digital devices such as computers, SMART™ boards, and other handheld devices. But are these technological advancements birthing a new and smarter generation of engineers? According to a University of Pittsburgh study, yes: Students using such tools are more successful than those who don't because the technologies promote better working memory and more flexible and transitional thinking.
The study's findings were published in the April issue of the Journal of Mechanical Design.
"We found that when students hold discussions while using a SMART™ board, for example, as they communicate more clearly through direct referencing, easy writing, or drawing," said Christian Schunn, a professor of psychology in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and a research scientist in Pitt's Learning Research and Development Center. "It not only puts everyone on the same page, but it saves time that otherwise might have been spent on additional explanations or unproductive conflicts resulting from miscommunication."
To understand the cognitive processes of students in the throes of engineering design processes, Schunn and Jooyoung Jang, lead author and a Pitt PhD student in psychology, set out to study the characteristics of innovation-supporting environments. They collected data across eight semesters, studying 43 interdisciplinary engineering teams consisting of advanced undergraduate and graduate students in biological, industrial, chemical, mechanical, and electrical engineering programs. The teams worked on a single project all semester, with each team being assigned to a different industry-sponsored project.
Early in the process, surveys were distributed to the students with questions related to the students' prior experiences with engineering design. Group meetings were also video-recorded and analyzed. Lab spaces were equipped with wall-mounted video and audio recording devices that automatically recorded all happenings in the classroom. Each lab space included a meeting table with four chairs, a SMART™ board, and a desktop computer. After collecting the recordings, the researchers labored over several thousands of hours of video to count when each team used the equipment in the space and how often.
The percentage of time each tool was used was analyzed. The teams were then grouped according to levels of success (low, medium, high) in meeting the goals of the project. High- and medium-success groups did not differ statistically in tool use; the main statistical differences were between low-success groups and the other two success levels. Compared to the low-success groups, the high- and medium-success groups used shareable tools like the SMART™ board and prototypes much more frequently, said Schunn.
Additionally, the effectiveness of a tool differed somewhat by the time the tool was incorporated into the design process, as those who used the shareable tools later in the process had extremely unsuccessful designs. The researchers also found that those with engineering experiences outside of a university better used the tools more often.
"There are many underlying mechanisms regarding how these tools support and hinder social and cognitive processes, and these psychological effects should be further explored in greater depth," said Schunn. "Engineering education may benefit from teaching the importance of shareable tools and early physical prototyping as part of design instruction."
Funding for this project was provided by the National Science Foundation.


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Pre-tax profits before exception items at Arcadia increased by £33.8m to £133.1m for the year ending 25 August, despite sales dipping slightly from £2,683m to £2,679m.
The profits were largely driven by an increase in margin, while sales held flat, as a result of a 22% increase in ecommerce sales.
Sir Philip Green, the Arcadia boss, hit out at high-street rivals who "cry" about the tough economic conditions, during an interview with Reuters ahead of the results.
Green said: "We've got to trade. We're here in the streets, we've got 45,000 staff, we've got a £500m payroll, we've got to make it work."
"We've got to up our game. If we sit there and cry and put on my front window 'the Bank of England said x', it isn't going to help me take any money."
The overall growth in ecommerce was a result of a 20% growth in UK ecommerce and a 33% growth in international ecommerce.
This strong growth comes as Arcadia brand Topshop increasingly engages with its customers on social media, where it hit three million Facebook fans this month.
The brand added 750,000 Facebook fans in two months, as Topshop focuses on more geo-targeted postings.
Topshop now claims it has the fastest-growing social media page of any brand worldwide and the biggest high-street retailer following online, globally.
The spike in growth occurred during London Fashion Week, when the brand partnered with Facebook to broadcast its fashion show online.
Meanwhile, sister brand Dorothy Perkins is attempting to appeal to a young digital-savvy audience with the launch of the Kardashian Kollection, after a tie-up with the Kardashian sisters.


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Officials within the U.S. military are actively targeting over-boozing troops at home and abroad, but addiction specialists and service members say binge drinking remains as rampant as ever inside the armed services.
Among the new initiatives to stem the problem: The Marines, starting next year, will give random breathalyzer tests to Corps members; the Air Force and Army curbed some overnight liquor sales for U.S. military personnel in Germany; and American service members in Japan were barred from leaving their residences after consuming more than one adult beverage.
The restrictions seem to have been independently created by brass within each branch — for example, the new rules for service members in Japan follow the October sexual assault of an Okinawa woman allegedly carried out by two U.S. sailors. Still, the fresh regulations arise three months after a study commissioned by the Department of Defense found that binge drinking by active-duty troops now constitutes "a public health crisis," noting as well that drunken soldiers were cited as a problem as far back as the Revolutionary War.
"But we can do better," said Dr. Charles P. O'Brien, chairman of the panel that authored the report and director of the Center for Studies of Addiction at the University of Pennsylvania. "We have a lot of research, a lot of medication, and a lot of techniques that have been developed over the years. We don't have to be stuck in the old ways of handling things.
"We found, though, that in the whole Army, there's only one doctor who's trained in addiction medicine. This is a specialty where we need more people and they're not there. So, most people are not getting treated with evidence-based medicine," O'Brien told NBC News. The study was issued by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Medicine.
Worse, O'Brien said he has learned — from emails he received in recent days from active-duty personnel — that one of the study's most simple suggestions has not been implemented: that the military's health system, TRICARE, alter its rules and allow substance-abusing service members to be treated with anti-addiction medications like Suboxone.
"We met a general who is on Suboxone but they (military doctors) are not letting other people have it," O'Brien said. "It's ridiculous ... When we briefed (military leaders in September), they expressed interest in following our recommendations. But, so far, I don't have any concrete evidence that anything has happened."
NBC News asked the Department of Defense to list which, if any, of the panel's recommendations have been installed to date.
"The Department of Defense appreciates the hard work of the Institute of Medicine in assessing substance abuse programs and policies in the Military Health System," Cynthia O. Smith, a DoD spokeswoman, responded in an email. "We are in the process of analyzing their findings and recommendations, but most importantly, we want to do the right thing for the Service member. If there are areas in need of improvement, then we will work to improve those areas. The health and well-being of our Service members is paramount."
Click here for more military-related coverage from NBC News.
The agency has a stated policy to "prevent and eliminate drug and alcohol abuse and dependence from the Department of Defense." The U.S. military, therefore, screens for problem drinking, provides treatment for those identified with alcohol or drug problems, and is working to "change attitudes toward binge drinking," Smith said, adding that "such abuse and dependence are incompatible with readiness, the maintenance of high standards of performance, and military discipline."
Indeed, in its analysis of boozing on military bases, the Institute of Medicine found that 47 percent of active-duty personnel engaged in binge drinking during 2008 (the most recent year for which data was available), and the authors concluded the use of alcohol and other drugs are "currently at unacceptably high levels," making it "detrimental to readiness and total force fitness."
Military members like Marine Sgt. Thomas Brennan, who joined in 2004 and who later served in Iraq and Afghanistan, describe drinking as a staple of life in uniform. He knows of several recent drunken-driving arrests involving his Marine buddies or his former unit members, he said.
"With the amount of recreational drinking that goes on, it's like peer pressure times 10," said Brennan, 27. "Everybody's drinking. The Marine Corps is a brotherhood. You want to be part of that brotherhood, and your brothers are doing it. Nobody forces you to do it but the inclination to do it is pretty strong."
In a New York Times blog published in October, Brennan wrote that the "golden rule" among Marine officers and non-commissioned officers seems to be: "If you're going to partake, do so behind closed doors and keep your mouth shut about it. I have heard many leaders tell under-age Marines that if they were going to drink that they should keep their doors locked and be smart about it. Only when they were caught were they told not to do it."
"I couldn't tell you how many times I've heard that over the years," Brennan told NBC News on Monday. "I wasn't perfect either. I let it go on."
The September study on alcohol abuse within the military also chastised the armed services for allowing "ready access to relatively inexpensive alcohol on military bases."
At Camp Lejeune, where Brennan was stationed, convenience stores contain large refrigerators stocked with domestic and imported beers, sold tax free. A six-pack of Stroh's, for example, costs about $4, he said.
On base, Marines also can purchase "Military Special" liquors, a cut-rate brand of liquor, including vodka and whiskey, that goes for about $6.50 per liter. At AR15.com, a firearms website popular with military members, one commenter described Military Special booze as: "No good for sipping, but for shots it works;" another said: "I am not sure I would clean battery terminals with that crap."
One combat-related factor exacerbating the overindulgence of alcohol is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In September, the Institute of Medicine reported that Iraq and Afghanistan veterans diagnosed with PTSD have alcohol-abuse rates that are twice as high as those found among civilian young adult males.
Brennan was diagnosed with PTSD and said that self-medicating with alcohol caused him to suffer a "short-lived drinking problem" after he returned from Iraq.
"You're already depressed because of the PTSD. Alcohol's a depressant. A lot of guys with PTSD just got angry (when they drank) and did dumb stuff, like fighting," Brennan said in a phone interview. "We had one guy throw his refrigerator off the third deck one night when he was drinking. But I don't know if that was PTSD, or just him being a crazy drunk."
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It sounds like a nightmare: A pilot falling asleep at the controls during a commercial flight.
The reality? It's common. Very common. As in …
'I've never fallen asleep on the flight deck, but I've twice looked over and saw the other pilot sleeping,' a commercial airline pilot told me the other day.
'So what did you do?' I asked
'I said, 'Hey dude,'' the pilot told me. 'And then they woke up, said they were sorry.'
Feel free to let your jaw hit the floor here. And it gets worse: According to a poll taken by The British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA), half of pilots surveyed admitted to falling asleep on the flight deck, and nearly 30 percent of them woke up to find the OTHER PILOT SLEEPING.
Sorry about the screaming there. I panicked. But yes. Both pilots. Asleep.
'The study sounds about right,' the pilot, who asked to remain anonymous, told me.
Now, you may ask yourself: Why would a pilots' union release findings like these? Reason was simple: New rules are being proposed in the European Union that would cut recovery time for pilots after a flight.
Here in America, the tide is going in the other direction. Pilots will get more time than they have.
As of now, pilots get a minimum of nine hours between flights. That's nine hours from landing to takeoff, and it's been this way since the start of the jet age, the pilot said. Starting next year, pilots will get 10 hours from when they get to the hotel. Big difference. Still, though … not a lot of time. To ridiculously compare, I teach classes at Rider University in Lawrence, New Jersey. Per union rules, we get 12 hours between classes if we teach at night. So yes. College professors are granted more recovery time than cross-country airline pilots.
In the meantime – and for the last 50 years or so – fatigued pilots have been routinely falling asleep in the cockpit.
Holy (bleep).
'Airlines do have fatigue risk policies, but it's a Catch-22,' the pilot told me. 'If you feel like you're too tired to fly, you can call in fatigued, and they'll remove you from the flight. But the 'gotcha' is – and this depends on which airline you fly for – you might not get paid.'
And considering many junior pilots – known as 'first officers' – make about $25,000 a year, especially on the smaller, regional airlines, calling out fatigued is not something pilots want to do.
Now to be clear, a pilot – or even both pilots – falling asleep at the controls is not as completely terrible as it sounds. Planes fly on autopilot. But …
'Every flight has inherent danger,' the pilot told me. 'Engine problems can crop up at any time. And if there's rapid decompression, and you don't get oxygen mask on in time … listen, one person is totally capable of flying the plane, but during an emergency? Two people need to be at the controls when anything weird happens.'
Is anyone else's heart beating a little faster right now? I don't know about you, but next time I fly, I'm coming on board and handing over two venti black coffees from Starbucks.
The pilot I spoke with said he wanted to be a pilot his whole life, and had no idea pilots would conk out in the cockpit with alarming regularity until he became a pilot himself.
'There's a joke,' he said. 'The captain tells the first officer, 'Don't let me catch you sleeping when I wake up.''
Anyway, the issue here doesn't lie with the pilots; when you're tired, you fall asleep. We're lousy at staying awake, in general. Over 37 percent of American drivers admit to falling asleep at the wheel, according to a study done by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF).
The problem lies with the rules. Lousy hotels, quick turnarounds, horrible pay. Apparently, the rules are changing for the better, but know this: Every time you've been on a plane, there's a decent chance the pilot was in sleepy dreamland.
Cocktail, please, steward.
Jeff Edelstein can be reached at facebook.com/jeffreyedelstein and @jeffedelstein on Twitter.


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NIU students promote Orange Bowl game in suburbs, city
Just moments after 10 students from Northern Illinois University stepped off their bus Friday in downtown Naperville, a car horn blared.
"Go Huskies!" the driver shouted.
And the students, flanked by mascot Victor E. Huskie, cheered and waved in return.
Their stop outside Dean's Clothing at Main Street and Jackson Avenue was part of a marathon stunt that lasted more than 12 hours to support the NIU football team.
The Huskies will make history Jan. 1 when they become the first Mid-America Conference school to play in a Bowl Championship Series game when they take on Florida State in the Orange Bowl.
To raise awareness of the milestone, the students left DeKalb before dawn Friday and traveled to busy spots in the Chicago area to hand out -- of course -- oranges. Two-thousand oranges, to be precise.
They started with prime spots in downtown Chicago such as Daley Plaza, Michigan Avenue and Macy's on State Street. Then they hit key suburban targets including downtown Glen Ellyn and Naperville, and finished at 4:30 p.m. in downtown Geneva.
"We want to get the word out that the MAC is back," said Lauren Bodey of Lily Lake.
Bodey and fellow student Pettee Guerrero of Chicago said fans who heard about their efforts sought them out during the day, and one even tweeted that she was disappointed to have missed them in Chicago.
But plenty of NIU fans and alumni found the group so they could snag their oranges and show their support.
Alumni Kyle Papp and Ashley Lang, both of Naperville, chatted with the group as the scent of oranges began to permeate along Main Street. Papp said the Huskies football program has steadily improved over the past decade, but has gone largely unnoticed.
"It's good they were able to kind of beat the system," Papp said. "New Year's Day will be a huge football day and, on Jan. 1, everyone will get to see what the Huskies are all about."
So far, NIU fans have claimed roughly 6,600 tickets to the Orange Bowl game.
Roughly 10,000 tickets priced between $75 and $165 remain available in the NIU sections of the stadium, officials said.
NIU is responsible for filling 17,500 seats in Sun Life Stadium for the game.
The university will continue to accept orders through the NIU Athletics Ticket Office in person and by phone at (815) 752-6800 until Dec. 23.
All orders must be picked up either at the ticket office (through Dec. 23) or in Miami (Dec. 26-Jan. 1).
Jeff Compher, director of athletics, said purchasing the tickets through NIU's office helps the school offset the costs of the bowl game and shows support for the team.
The school does not reap the same benefits if tickets are bought through another agency, he said.
Ultimately, though, officials at the Mid-American Conference are working to ensure NIU does not lose money on its surprise journey to the Orange Bowl, no matter how many tickets it sells, an NIU spokesman said.
The spokesman said MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher has spoken with NIU President John Peters about keeping the university in the black.


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Slax author's Blog (RSS)
Chrome module had wrong root dir permissions
One Slax user, with nickname dajiangtang, notified me regarding a problem of chrome module. It had root directory permissions set to 0744 instead of 0755. When such module was added to Slax root filesystem, it changed Slax's root directory permissions so unpriviledged (non-root) user couldn't login. That was actually just part of the problem, I got several other notices that after chrome module was activated, some other strange things started to happen.
I've fixed that and chrome module is rebuilt. If you had any troubles with Slax after using chrome module in the past, please upgrade to the new module now. Thank you for understanding.
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I have reported it too (even long time ago)
After all It did not worked on my configuration so i think problem coming from my configuration.
Its really easy to use Slackware packages as bundles. txz2sb does everything nicely :)
Still using chrome module from slackware...
thank you for this, I've been waiting for a long time, but it's still problematic it seems.
after placing chrome and gconf 64-bit .sb files in the modules folder and booting v7.0.8 using USB (loading to memory, no persistent changes) I seem to have issues with the b43 module, and a few other things don't work as expected anymore, like USB automount.
removing chrome, everything goes back to normal, the only other module I'm loading as I mentioned is b43, it brings up the wifi card but it never populates any SSIPs to connect to.
chrome however does launch without problems, but I can't connect to the internet.
the issue with chrome was discussed quite extensively on the v7.0.5 release blog, maybe there is something else that has to be done to fix it:
I am afraid I do not know what else to fix, everything other seems just normal.
Hello Tomas M.
Some advice there need to be a bug reporting page to your website so we all here can report but for fixing and other can view the bug reports also...
But anyway after installing the latest build of slax on the my kingston DataTraveler 2.0 16GB removable storage device everything worked great i when to the software center and activated Chrome and the Linux Firmware after a day of letting it sit i restarted the computer when i restarted the no removable storage devices we identified / recognized or even mounted such as my usb SanDisk Cruzer 2.0 or even my SD cards... these both worked before restarting my computer also the previous version had the same problem and on that one i did not even install chrome in fact i could not even installed chrome so it was not chrome interfering i did deactivate the linux firmware module and then restarted and this did not fix the problem so i am lost to when this problem my lay with out looking in to the source code... Sorry for my English grammar it sucks...
By the way i really like Slax it is probably the best live OS that i have used and i have used a lot of live OSes but this still need work but it is growing so good job so far and thanks for the great OS.
PS: Would you package the Slax Source code in rar, zips, something i hate having to FTP the files... even knowing this is a stupid question this is how i prefer to download source code and libraries... If you could thank you very much!
" there need to be a bug reporting page to your website "
A forum is necessary . Please consider adding a section or tab to the existing slax 6's forum for slax 7.
notification not working
it does not show the copying status.
hello please plus.google extension module add
please skype module
please java module i see skype sorry but please java very important plus.google hangout extension module how to .deb install on slax.
For 32bits slax
Java jre bundles -Module No 32
Get From:- http://www.mediafire.com/?umimq5ezefmor
how to .deb install on slax.
Debian deb package can be converted to slax sb bundle from the console:
deb2sb name_of_input_file.deb name_of_output_file.sb
The sb bundle will be created in /tmp
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hello, if I install the module chrome, using Software Center, restart the PC, my wifi card is no longer detected by the system and therefore will not work slax
Is it possible that the new .../i486/2/2983-chrome.sb has again a Problem with the permissions, I have a strange problem in combination with Apache and premissions when I activate Chrome.
First of all I want to say THANK for excellent SLAX.
But there is a problem with chrome module. I install it using Sotware Center and start browser. Chrome window appear without problem, but when I try to go to any page system is blocked and pop the suggestion to enter password. When I do it I see a window with Firefox caution and Dolphin start itself.
After crush deactivating of chrome is OK. Deactivating of GConf isn't available, this bundle is in use.
May be this information will be useful to repair the bug. But now I refuse chome and use firefox only.
When I installed the "chrome" module my slax 7.0.8, it didn't load the other modules at slax/modules and drivers, also I couldn't access to the Internet and explore the hard disk and USB pens.
Sorry from my very bad English


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I'm the kind of person that likes working in the open.
Undergraduate university student by day, freelance web developer and techie by night.
I have a deep passion for free & open-source software. Part of the Fedora Project for the last six years, constantly contributing to its marketing and outreach efforts. Also one of the Mozilla Reps based in Greece, promoting the organization's vision for an open web.
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By chance, it appears that the US Congress will decide on or around Sept. 11 whether to endorse President Barack Obama's proposal to respond militarily to the Syrian government's use of poison gas against civilians. The shadow of two previous events that took place on Sept. 11 looms over the outcome -— indeed, over the fact that the question is even being considered at all.
Long before Sept. 11, 2001, became a day of infamy in the US, it acquired similar significance in Chile, where 40 years ago, on Sept. 11, 1973, the armed forces, led by General Augusto Pinochet, overthrew the country's democratically elected government. More than any other event of our era, that violent coup was responsible for launching both the contemporary global movement for human rights and the US movement to promote human rights internationally.
In part, this reflected the new regime's cruelty. More than three thousand people were murdered or "disappeared" during Pinochet's rule, thousands more were tortured by his forces, and tens of thousands were forcibly exiled. To an even greater extent, however, the motivation that spurred the human-rights movement was revulsion worldwide, including in the US, against US aid to Pinochet's forces, a policy directed by then-US president Richard Nixon and then-secretary of state Henry Kissinger.
In the US, members of Congress turned the coup into a platform for efforts to promote human rights. They condemned developments in Chile, held hearings about the importance of promoting human rights, and adopted legislation — over then-US president Gerald Ford's veto — requiring that human-rights standards guide US foreign policy.
A slightly revised version of that legislation remains in force. Obama's proclamation that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would cross a "red line" — and his implicit threat to use force if that line were crossed — reflects the commitment that the US has made during the past four decades to promote human rights worldwide.
The events of Sept. 11, 2001, are also playing a crucial role in deciding the question of a punitive strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime. One consequence of the terrorist attacks 12 years ago is that Americans and others in the West became aware that developments in the Middle East could affect their own safety and security.
IRAQ's legacy
Initially, the attacks unleashed a strong desire to retaliate, which later gave way to caution about intervention, owing to unforeseen consequences. In the UK, continuing intense resentment over the deceptions that led to the country's engagement in the Iraq war seems to be the main reason for Parliament's refusal to back a strike against Syria. Wariness of another Middle East war has also underpinned Obama's unwillingness to go beyond a one-time punitive strike on Syria — with some in Congress opposed to even that.
Though Congress must guard against repeating its disastrous mistake in 2003, when it supported the war in Iraq, the commitment to promote human rights that the US made following Sept. 11, 1973, seems a more appropriate standard for weighing Obama's proposal for US military action in Syria. Maintaining the international prohibition on the use of chemical weapons is an urgent concern.
The Assad regime's culpability for using these weapons is not in doubt. If the US Congress deals with Obama's proposal responsibly, and does not yield to those motivated by a partisan desire to embarrass him at every turn, it will enhance its own claim to recapture the constitutional power to authorize military conflict — a power that has been disregarded more often than not in the past half-century. A critical part of its role must be to consider with care the limits that should be placed on a punitive strike.
The war in Iraq was misconceived from the start, because it was an attempt to avenge the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by invading and occupying a country that had no part in them. Obama's proposal to strike Syria, by contrast, is an attempt to enforce an important human-rights norm by directly punishing — through means that do not involve invasion and occupation — those who committed a gross violation. It restores human rights to the central place in US foreign policy set forth after Sept. 11, 1973.
Aryeh Neier is president emeritus of the Open Society Foundations and a founder of Human Rights Watch.
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During the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum's third leadership summit on Aug. 31, US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun said that the US wants to partner with the other members of the Quadrilaterial Security Dialogue — Australia, India and Japan — to establish an organization similar to NATO, to "respond to ... any potential challenge from China." He said that the US' purpose is to work with these nations and other countries in the Indo-Pacific region to "create a critical mass around the shared values and interest of those parties," and possibly attract more countries to establish an alliance comparable to
On August 24, 2020, the US Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, made an important statement: "The Pentagon is Prepared for China." Going forward, how might the Department of Defense team up with Taiwan to make itself even more prepared? No American wants to deter the next war by a paper-thin margin, and no one appreciates the value of strategic overmatch more than the war planners at the Pentagon. When the stakes are this high, you can bet they want to be super ready. In recent months, we have witnessed a veritable flood of high-level statements from US government leaders on
China has long sought shortcuts to developing semiconductor technologies and local supply chains by poaching engineers and experts from Taiwan and other nations. It is also suspected of stealing trade secrets from Taiwanese and US firms to fulfill its ambition of becoming a major player in the global semiconductor industry in the next decade. However, it takes more than just money and talent to build a semiconductor supply chain like the one which Taiwan and the US started to cultivate more than 30 years ago. Amid rising trade and technology tensions between the world's two biggest economies, Beijing has become
With a new White House document in May — the "Strategic Approach to the People's Republic of China" — the administration of US President Donald Trump has firmly set its hyper-competitive line to tackle geoeconomic and geostrategic rivalry, followed by several reinforcing speeches by Trump and other Cabinet-level officials. By identifying China as a near-equal rival, the strategy resonates well with the bipartisan consensus on China in today's severely divided US. In the face of China's rapidly growing aggression, the move is long overdue, yet relevant for the maintenance of the international "status quo." The strategy seems to herald a new


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"The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by the New York Times Company. It has won 114 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization. The paper's print version has the largest circulation of any metropolitan newspaper in the United States, and the second-largest circulation overall, behind The Wall Street Journal. It is ranked 39th in the world by circulation. Following industry trends, its weekday circulation has fallen to fewer than one million daily since 1990. Nicknamed for years as "The Gray Lady", The New York Times is long regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record". It is owned by The New York Times Company. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., (whose family (Ochs-Sulzberger) has controlled the paper for five generations, since 1896), is both the paper's publisher and the company's chairman. Its international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the International New York Times. The paper's motto, "All the News That's Fit to Print", appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page." (Wikipedia)
(1) Vulnerability Description:
The New York Times has a computer cyber security problem. Hacker can exploit its users by XSS bugs.
The code program flaw occurs at New York Times's URLs. Nytimes (short for New York Times) uses part of the URLs to construct its pages. However, it seems that Nytimes does not filter the content used for the construction at all before 2013.
Based on Nytimes's Design, Almost all URLs before 2013 are affected (All pages of articles). In fact, all article pages that contain "PRINT" button, "SINGLE PAGE" button, "Page *" button, "NEXT PAGE" button are affected.
Nytimes changed this mechanism since 2013. It decodes the URLs sent to its server. This makes the mechanism much safer now.
However, all URLs before 2013 are still using the old mechanism. This means almost all article pages before 2013 are still vulnerable to XSS attacks. I guess the reason Nytimes does not filter URLs before is cost. It costs too much (money & human capital) to change the database of all posted articles before.
Living POCs Codes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html//' ">
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/travel/09where-to-go.html//' ">?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/opinion/07brooks.html//' ">
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/technology/06stats.html//' ">
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/dining/091crex.html//' ">
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/opinion/lweb14brain.html//' ">
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(2) Vulnerability Analysis:
Take the following link as an example,
It can see that for the page reflected, it contains the following codes. All of them are vulnerable.

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(3) What is XSS?
Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in Web applications. XSS enables attackers to inject client-side script into Web pages viewed by other users. A cross-site scripting vulnerability may be used by attackers to bypass access controls such as the same origin policy.
"Hackers are constantly experimenting with a wide repertoire of hacking techniques to compromise websites and web applications and make off with a treasure trove of sensitive data including credit card numbers, social security numbers and even medical records. Cross-site Scripting (also known as XSS or CSS) is generally believed to be one of the most common application layer hacking techniques Cross-site Scripting allows an attacker to embed malicious JavaScript, VBScript, ActiveX, HTML, or Flash into a vulnerable dynamic page to fool the user, executing the script on his machine in order to gather data. The use of XSS might compromise private information, manipulate or steal cookies, create requests that can be mistaken for those of a valid user, or execute malicious code on the end-user systems. The data is usually formatted as a hyperlink containing malicious content and which is distributed over any possible means on the internet." (Acunetix)
The vulnerability can be attacked without user login. Tests were performed on Firefox (34.0) in Ubuntu (14.04) and IE (9.0.15) in Windows 8.
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In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting and the default pantheon of deities for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Erythnul is the Oeridian god of hate, envy, malice, panic, ugliness, and slaughter. He is known as the Many, and is worshipped by many gnoll, troll, ogre, and bugbear tribes, in addition to humans. Erythnul delights in panic and slaughter.
Worshippers[edit source]
In civilized lands, Erythnul's followers (including evil fighters, barbarians, and rogues) form small, criminal cults. In savage lands, evil barbarians, gnolls, bugbears, ogres, and trolls commonly worship him.
Erythnul is the official god of Stonehold in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting.
References[edit source]
- Gygax, Gary. World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (TSR, 1983).
- Gygax, Gary. "The Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk." Dragon #71 (TSR, 1983).
- Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean K. Reynolds, and Frederick Weining. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).
- Moore, Roger E. Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins (TSR, 1998).
- Noonan, David. Complete Divine (Wizards of the Coast, 2004).
- Redman, Rich, Skip Williams, and James Wyatt. Deities and Demigods (Wizards of the Coast, 2002).
- Sargent, Carl. From the Ashes (TSR, 1992).
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Kar98K Sporter - a peek
+Highly realistic construction and action
+Beautiful finish
+Decent power out of the box
+Ejecting shells
-Small capacity
-Niche 8mm caliber
-Ejecting shells
A very realistic Kar98k-based rifle for a unique look and unsurpassed realism. Loading this rifle with stripper clips and cycling the action to load the shells is an experience way above any electric sewing machine!
If you thought that the Kar98 from the year '98 turns 10 years old, you were mistaken by a hundred years. When this rifle was adopted, it was considered a short rifle, hence the name Karabiner, which is obviously German for Carbine. The Kar98k (for Kurz) model was shortened further for the use of the Wehrmacht in 1935, but even with this chopmod it was still 1110 mm long. With its 600mm (~24") barrel it would be a sniper rifle by today's standards. The Kar98k had a small magazine capacity of five, but overlooking the infantryman's firepower was balanced by the effective use of machineguns at squad level.
The designers at Mauser really hit the nail on the head with their original design, because the Mauser action is a very widespread norm among rifle manufacturers all over the world from Europe to Asia and the United States. One could say it is to bolt action rifles what Browning's short barrel recoil is to self-loading pistols. In this light it is not surprising that it has spawned many sporting and hunting variants, more or less based on the very same action from the times of the German Empire.
The most intriquing feature of the Marushin Kar98k series is the operation, which is clearly more realistic than any APS or VSR, and even a notch higher compared to the Tanaka and STAR rifles. Gas is loaded into a surprisingly large gas tank hidden within the bolt, and the BBs are loaded in the brass casings. The ammo can be loaded into the magazine of the rifle one by one, or with the help of a clip if you're in a hurry and need the convenience. Spare shells are available, and they can be carried in WWII-era pouches! One gas charge is enough for dozens and dozens of shots, so you'll be reloading the rifle quite a few times before you have to wake up from the immersion in the game, and grab the gas bottle.
It is an entirely different feeling to play with a bolt-action rifle of this type, compared to the hassle-free electric guns or even the more demanding bolt action rifles, which only let you shoot one BB at the time. It is certainly not easy, but the feeling you get when you grip this rifle in your hands with only four rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber is like stepping into a time-machine. The rush from dropping an opponent is on a different level entirely!
Cycling the Marushin Kar98k requires a swift and decisive loading action, but with the right touch it doesn't tackle - and will smoothen out in a short time when you use it. It shoots the BB quite accurately, and the first stage of acceleration happens already within the shell. The barrel has two hop-up nubs to provide enough backspin for the heavy BB.
The power out of the box is a decent 290 fps with HFC134a and 0.34g BBs, which means 1.32 joules of energy, and equals almost 380 fps in "0.2g world". These figures are still perfectly legal even in Japan, because 8mm Airsoft models are excempt from the strict 0.98 Joule limit, and have to be below 1.64 joules instead. Using Top Gas boosts the energy to 1.92 joules, which equals the energy of a 0.2g BB traveling over 450 fps! However, the high pressure gas requires you to block a dump valve next to the fill valve. As a disclaimer, we can't recommend you to try this on your own.
With gas blowbacks becoming more and more popular, there is a natural drive to make manual action weapons more appealing somehow. Blowback would be difficult to execute for these, but the use of shells is something gas blowbacks can't offer in a sensible manner. We've already seen the Tanaka shotguns (not to forget the Airsoft Surgeon Slugshot and Buckshot!), Tanaka just released a gas-in-the-shells version of their famous M500 with the SAA next in line, so the bolt action rifles deserve some attention as well.
To be honest, shell ejecting models are not for everybody. With a capacity of five and a virtual "must" to catch the shells, it takes a lot of skill and the right mindset to use these weapons in the field. If you're man enough to take on the challenge, it is not unheard of to see these in action in the skirmish fields, but for the rest of us they are still great fun for plinking!
Stainless model with urethane stock: [MS-CR-KAR98KSVSPORT]
Black model with real wood stock: [MS-CR-KAR98KSPORT]
Spare shells: [MRZ-KAR98K8-SHELL]


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